Photographica is the coolest site on the internet to share your photographs with the world. With over 10,000 members now, Photographica has grown exponentially the last year or so--and we're glad you've decided to join in the fun. Here are a couple of pointers to help you master the site:

Submit a story just once every 24 hours. We appreciate your enthusiasm, but the front page only holds 30 stories at a time. When you post, the story on the bottom drops to the second page, where it receives much less traffic. If you post two or three stories in a row, two or three stories will drop off the front page. Be nice to your fellow member and just post once per day. Remember, you can post any number of pictures within your post as you want.

Read the Help Page, and PREVIEW! If your picture is not appearing in your story as a popup when you Preview, it will not appear when you click Submit. You need to manually insert your photos into your story. You do this by choosing your photo from the dropdown menu to the right of the text body on the Submit New Story page. You can then change the words "Description_Here" to whatever you want to title your picture. Like this! Remember, you can Preview as many times as you need to--but you can Submit only once.

Read through the Q&A Section.You can read all the questions others have come up with by clicking on the Q&A link in the right-hand blue box on every page. There you can learn how editors delete your photos upon request, you can create avatars to show up when you make comments, and why the Photo Journals section is so cool. This site rewards exploration--no question is dumb, and no question hasn't come up before.

This is a community.The great thing about Photographica is its members and community. Don't just submit photos--comment on other members' work! The more feedback we get, the better photographers we'll all be.

Put your money where your pictures are.Help make this the best photo site on the web: Subscribe! You not only get access to cool features, you're helping with the administrative costs and doing your part. You'll be the among the first to try out new features as Cory implements them, too.

Have fun.Photographica is a rewarding site that encourages discussion, debate and, within reason, controversy. We're only as good as our members.

Questions?Contact info for your Editors is at the top of every page, by clicking the About link.

I know overflow from too many postings in a day get sent there, but what was it originally created for? Thanks!

i am still having the same trouble on my computer. starts the upload and when it switches pages it just shows done on the bottom of the screen. never uploads the pictures. I tried from a friends computer today and had no problems. I have just installed spybot is it posible it has caused this problem. please help i have become addicted to your site and need a daily fix.

i cant upload any more pictures, i go though all the steps and they upload and then goes to a blank screen saying done at bottom any suggestions.

I'm just a beginer at this, so if I mess up please forgive me as I am also learning to use my first computer. I have taken soom fairly good pictures of the Blue Angels in action, but I need to figure out how to post them. Help in this area would be much appreciated.

Hello to Everyone in Photographica,
  I am from Houston,Texas this is my first time in Photograhica and I would like to post some pictures. Would you please, tell me how to resize them or is it done by the site automatically ?

     Thanks in advance for your help.
Miztli

Just a quick reminder that this site is in a constant state of change. Some of those changes are for a better appearance, or to add functionality, or to fix bugs. No matter what the reason for each change, it is important to remember that your computer will do it's best to hold on to the past, so to speak. What I'm trying to say is whenever a change is announced, it is probably a good idea to clear your browsers cache, or Temporary Internet Files.

Clearing your cache can often resolve quirky little problems you experience on this site, and all over the Internets for that matter, and is very easy to do...

• In Firefox: Click into the Tools menu, then select Options. Once the Options window opens, go into the Privacy tab, and click the Clear button next to Cache.
  
  
• In Internet Explorer: Click into the Tools menu, then select Internet Options. From there, locate the area right in the middle of the window that says Temporary Internet Files and click the Delete Files button.

If you are using a different browser, the steps should be fairly similar to either one of those above. After clearing your cache, refresh the site. If you are still having an issue, PM me or one of the other editors for assistance.

As always...have fun and enjoi!

For those of you who have ever said "I love galleries, but the one thing I HATE about them is that you have to remember the keyword you used, because it doesn't get displayed anywhere..." I have some great news! Bookmark this URL:
http://www.photographica.org/delete/

When you go to that address, you will get an error about not having permission, or some such banter. Ignore it. Look on the right-hand side of the page...there you will see the old skool HTML help box (also a handy thing to look at sometimes), and below that you will see a list of your most recent uploaded images, and finally, a list of your most recent galleries! Keep that in mind, it's been helpful to me on more than one occasion!

If you'd like to have a photo (or photos) deleted from your "My Photos" page, please contact one of the following Editors:

austinspace (John)
codepoit (Chris)
kwsNI (Aaron)
kikker (Shmuli)

Private Message is the best way to make this type of request. PM links for each of us can be found on the Contact page (link at the top of every Photographica page). You are more than welcome to send a PM to any other Editor, but the 4 of us listed above are around a lot more often than the others.

Lots of folks seem to be having trouble with the Gallery feature, so as I service to all, I thought I'd create this brief tutorial.  I hope it helps.

Creating a Gallery is very easy, and incorporating a Gallery into a Story is no more difficult than adding photos... except that you have to manually type the code.

Here are the steps.

1. Upload photos as you would for any other purpose.

2. Click "Create New Gallery", and you'll be transported to a screen that looks LIKE THIS

3. Give your Gallery a Title and a Keyword
   REMEMBER THIS KEYWORD... IT WILL NOT SHOW ANYWHERE LATER

4. Change the colors of the background and text in the boxes shown
   (default is white text on black background)

5. In the left column, select the keyword of each photo you want to include in the Gallery.

   NOTE:  Photos can be no more than 750px wide, or 560 high, or they won't show up in the pulldown  
   (This is about as large as you'd want to go for most images on this site anyway)

   note that the keyword pulldown may appear "lower" on the screen than the corresponding number and description fields..  don't worry about this.

6. In the right-hand column, enter a brief description, which will appear below the photo.

7. Continue as above to add up to 20 photos to the gallery

8. <Click "Submit">, and you've created the gallery.
   

Of course until you plug your gallery into a story, it won't be visible anywhere.  

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Now, create a new story:

1. Click "Post New Story"

2. write your story text

3. Insert your gallery as you would for a popup, but change the tag "[popup] to [Gallery], and using the Gallery's keyword you memorized in step 3 above.

   So,  for example, this demo gallery uses the syntax:
   
   [gallery keyword="GalleryDemo"] demo gallery [/gallery]
   
   (where brackets [  and ] are really < and > symbols, respectively)

4. preview your story by clicking "preview", and when ready,

5. click "Submit"... and your story is posted to the site.
   

I hope this helps.... let's see some amazing galleries.

To all the new members in the last few days/weeks: Welcome!

I noticed that a lot of you forgot to include the popup tags for your images. The popup tags allow the other members to easily view your posted image via a link in your entry. Cory, the site owner, has created a very easy to follow help file for this issue. That help file can be found by clicking the following link: Help File.

I hope this helps some of you out. In turn, that will help the rest of us out because we will be able to see your images. Please don't take offense to this, I am only trying to help :-)